New Delhi: Delhi Police is prone to file a cost sheet on Thursday in reference to the case of alleged sexual harassment filed towards outgoing WFI chief Brij Bhushan Singh on the complaints of ladies wrestlers. On June 7, Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur met Olympic medallists Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik and guaranteed the agitating wrestlers that the cost sheet within the case could be filed by June 15, following which they suspended their stir.
“Since the minister has assured the wrestlers that the charge sheet in the case will be filed by June 15 (Thursday), we will abide by it,” mentioned a senior police official.
As a part of the probe, the Delhi Police has additionally written to wrestling federations of 5 nations searching for particulars in reference to the alleged incidents of sexual harassment by Singh, however their reply is awaited. Once these are obtained, a supplementary cost sheet could be filed within the case, officers mentioned.
The notices have been despatched searching for images and video of the tournaments and the CCTV footage of the locations the place the wrestlers stayed throughout their matches, they mentioned. The Special Investigation Team questioned greater than 180 folks and in addition went to BJP MP Brij Bhushan Singh’s residence in Gonda the place it recorded statements of the outgoing WFI chief’s relations, colleagues, home employees and his associates.
The investigators additionally took a lady wrestler to the official residence of Singh in New Delhi to recreate the sequence of occasions that led to the alleged crime. The wrestlers have threatened to renew their protest if a cost sheet isn’t filed by the required interval.
After his assembly on June 7, Thakur addressed a press convention and mentioned the wrestlers had steered that the cost sheet within the case be filed by June 15 and the WFI elections be held by June 30. The wrestlers had additionally steered that an Internal Complaints Committee of WFI headed by a lady be fashioned. All these proposals have been agreed to unanimously by the Sports Minister.
Following the reassurance, the grapplers suspended their agitation until June 15. The protesting wrestlers have been demanding the arrest of Singh, who they’ve accused of sexually exploiting girls wrestlers, together with a minor.
In one other key choice, the federal government additionally agreed to not permit Brij Bhushan Singh, who has accomplished three phrases as president, and his associates to contest elections as per the wrestlers’ demand.
